Kremlin’s Patience Running Out With US Plan To Return Russian Embassy Assets

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens during his annual televised call-in show in Moscow on Thursday, June 15, 2017. (Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

MOSCOW (AP) — The Kremlin says its patience with a U.S. plan to return the Russian Embassy’s compounds is running out.

President Vladimir Putin’s foreign affairs adviser, Yuri Ushakov, said Monday that Russia has demonstrated a remarkable restraint by refraining from a tit-for-tat response to President Barack Obama’s decision in December to expel 35 Russian diplomats and shutter Russian compounds in Maryland and on Long Island, New York.

Ushakov says while Russia has shown “unusual flexibility,” Moscow’s patience “has its limits.” He urged Washington to take action to “free Russia from the need to take retaliatory moves,” emphasizing that Moscow will feel obliged to respond if the matter isn’t settled.

Putin and Trump are to have their first meeting at the sidelines of the G-20 summit, being held in Germany on Friday and Saturday.

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  1. Uh oh, Donnie, your master is not happy with you…

    Careful, or he’ll trade you to North Korea, for a despot to be named later.

  2. That reminds me I should fax Ryan about that sanctions bill again.

    Somehow, I don’t think Putin’s tit will be in the same vein as the tat.

  3. Avatar for dnl dnl says:

    …So long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehn, good-bye . The Don will grovel to get the Vlad’s approval.

  4. This from the people who invades other countries and launches cyber attacks on other countries all the time.

  5. Avatar for dcd dcd says:

    No puppet! No puppet! You’re the puppet!

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